Unreal Egg Hook: Tiemco #105 Size 10 Egg: Otter’s Egg 6mm Opaque Apricot Sheath: Chartreuse Egg Yarn I saw this pattern in a magazine or a book several months ago and liked the looks of it. You can use a plastic bead, metal bead, or Otter’s Eggs. Mix and match the colors of the beads Read more about Unreal Egg – Eric Wroblewski[…]

Chubby Sculpin This fly was designed to imitate the chubs and other small baitfish that we have on our local streams/rivers. I have tied in it three color combinations: 1) brown to imitate the color of chubs and sculpins, 2) olive to imitate sculpins and other small Read more about Chubby Sculpin – Greg Sautter[…]

Elk Hair Caddis – Peacock Style Caddisflies are a very prolific aquatic insect and are an important bug to the fly fisher. They come in many varieties. Compared to the mayfly, the mayfly has 200 species in 30 genera and 12 families while the caddisfly has roughly 1400 species, 147 genera, and 22 Read more about Elk Hair Caddis/Peacock Style – Lee Troyer[…]

I sat down at my tying table one evening to whip up some of Dennis Potter’s Opal X Caddis for a upcoming fishing trip. I have used his Opal X Caddis pattern with great success on the Michigan and Montana streams I fish, for the past several years. When I was done I decided to Read more about Opal Iris Caddis – Eric Wroblewski[…]

This is a Bear Andrews pattern that I learned to tie at his tying class last spring. His claims to it’s effectiveness convinced me to tie them up to use for last year’s steelhead run and I had good success with it. It is a bead head wiggle-nymph pattern and I tied them in black with Read more about Doctor J – Eric Wroblewski[…]